River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-10-06
Temperance.
CONDUCTED BY THE, w. C. T. U.
"F0r God aud Home and Natire Land"
Regular meeting of the Union on

Regular meeting of the Union on
Friday, at half past two O'Clock, at the
NJ. E. church parlors. Come.
What good has the saloon ever
donel" "Why do we permit it to
stay!"-LDr. Parsons.
when are we to choose the lesser
Of the two evils!' "Is everything of
itself either right or wrong!"-[ CUES.
tions taken from the question box at
the Congregational young peoples
meeting, Sept. 25th.
''God is on our side" said a com
forting friend to Abraham Lincoln, in
the darkest day of the war. Il am
most concerned to be on Gods side, >"
was the solemn reply of this heart-sore,
weary man who was ahead of his
countrys thought and therefore mis-
judged.
mot Divine Influences, but Divinity
i'm person is on the field where eternal
right is at stake, aud souls are lost
and won. So this great reform, like
those which have gone before it, ar
rays not alone the armies of earth, but
other and greater armies darken the
air, just beyond the line VI our vision;
while this contest, which stirs our
hearts moves Heaven and He'll Mary
II. Lathrop.
APATHY will doubtless account for
the strange attitude of many voters,
and "pity tits, tbs true" They know
that in these days of frightful danger
and irremediable loss,
There is no flock however watched and tended
But one dead lamb is there;
There is no Preside howsOe'er defended
But has one vacant chair.
The voice of Rachel crying for her
children and refusing TO be cUmforted
because they are not, falls ON their
ears, but fails to reach their hearts.
The physically weaker and unrepre-
scented class cries out, Look there!"
while the finger of public scoTn points
at the dram.shop's open door; and
broken hearted women ask the un-
answerable question, "Uhy do you
permit this awful temptatiOn--Ou one
corner of the street church, on
another the school-house, between our
homes. the dearest places on earth,
and just across the street, the dram
shop, tempting our best beloved to
ruin, and hedged about by the guar
antees and safeguards of the law!
Why do you permit all this; why must
we suffer it!" / can but think the
men are few who will remain much
longer shut up in the stronghold of
their apathy, regardless of the plea
and protest of American womanhood."
: Francis +. Willard.
Senator Colquit gives some telling
facts concerning the workings of pro-
hibitiOn in Atlanta. This is city of
65, 900; was as wicked as most cities
where liquor ruled. One of its streets
was lined with saloons, no lady could
walk through it with safety, and the
bravest man dreaded even to ride
through it at night. Now its saloons
are closed and young girl may safely
traverse it by day or night, and she
will not hear profane word. There
were an hundred and fifty saloons in
Atlanta, and croakers prophesied that
these, an hundred and fifty buildings,
would stand empty. Every single one
of them is occupied, many of them
with stores where healthful food, in
stead of destroying drink is sold, and
property has increased from ten TO
thirty per cent. The Senator remarked
that be did not like to discuss the
financial benefits of prohibition to
Atlanta; great as they are. they are
dgarfed into insigniflcance by the
response TO Christ's mOmentous ques.
ton, "What shall it profit man if he
gain the whole world and lose his own
soul" He likes best to consider pro-
hibition as soul.saving scheme, for
such it has proved to Atlanta. AS
soon as liquor was turned out, the
spirit of God had chance on mems
hearts, and wonderful revival fol-
lowed. To-day there is not city on
earth more truly Christian than At
lanta. 1900 men and women have
been added to the church since the
adoption of prohibition. ''Is the law
enforced, and will it continue to BET"
is asked. Eyes, just as long as $500
fines and Imprisonment follow its in
fraction, prohibition will prohibit. -
Union Signal.
We would like to call the attention
of thinking men to the Hamilton Co.
Convention. of Ohio,--to their plat
form, and the men nominated to office;
the place where they held the cQnven-
ton, the amount of beer literally pro-
vided for the occasion; who Geo. b.
Cox 1.-THE manipulation of politics in
that county, is; who Jack Hart, Rud
Hynicka and Bill Copeland are, and
what their record is. The nominees
for representative, three of them, were
members of the last legislature and
took the pledge against Sunday and
liquor legislation. Four of them are
members of the city council of Gin
cinnatti and voted for the Sunday open
saloon ordinance. The platform en-
dorses Gov. Foraker and the rebel
flags, also the Dow resolution.
"oh, who is there among US the true and the
tried,
who Ii stand by his colors? Who's on the Lords
side?"
Another assassination In Mississippi,
at Holly Springs. II. w. Reynolds,
editor of a prohibition paper, was
assassinated by saloon men. Knocked
down, and beaten with loaded whip,
while the son of the mayor stood by to
prevent interference.
And still another. estate organizer
of the prohibition party in Michigan,
VIM. A. Taylor, was assaulted with
intent to kill, at Sutton Bay, by gang
of saloon men on Sept. 17th."
Hon. Chas. Foster, as governor of
Ohio, told the legislature that it cost
the people of the state annually
$40. 600, 900 for the drink traffic. The
state receives s., 1000, 200, revenue, un.
der the Dow law, leaving balance of
563, 900 900 to be saved to the people
by prohibition of the traffic. Such
being the case in one state, what